The GOP is saying that it’s not fair to delay certain aspects of the law’s implementation that will leave others painfully in its clutches. The (unconstitutional, I still believe) individual mandate will remain to punish those without insurance, but businesses with over 50 workers don’t have to insure anyone for another year, essentially guaranteeing more individuals are dumped into the state exchanges. However, 26 states have legally refused to set up those exchanges, meaning the feds will have to do it, leading to even more chaos!

However, can the Obama Administration arbitrarily do this kind of fiat enforcement of the law without consulting Congress?

At the end of the day, semantic-driven one-year delays are not going to solve the kinds of problems in the Obamacare system. This kind of chaos was baked in the cake, so as to push the nation towards a more simple single-payer nationalized system. Ultimately this kind of chaos plays into the progressive long-game on socialized health care, which the country still doesn’t even want.